Touchpad stopped working with version 32 (perhaps earlier?) At one point there was an X.org configuration required, but that appears to have become irrelevant. Is there a FAQ?
Add'l info.
Running XFCE. Touchpad is not listed in the Mouse page, so presumably the touchpad is broken?
On Mon, 27 Jul 2020 14:44:09 -0700 Geoffrey Leach geoff@hughes.net wrote:
Touchpad stopped working with version 32 (perhaps earlier?) At one point there was an X.org configuration required, but that appears to have become irrelevant. Is there a FAQ?
On 7/27/20 3:07 PM, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
Running XFCE. Touchpad is not listed in the Mouse page, so presumably the touchpad is broken?
Check if your keyboard has a disable touchpad button. Check in the BIOS settings if there's a touchpad setting for smart. Sometimes that one doesn't work with Linux. Check in /proc/bus/input/devices to see if you can see your touchpad listed.
Do you remember what the X config setting was that you had before?
On Mon, 27 Jul 2020 16:05:47 -0700 Samuel Sieb samuel@sieb.net wrote:
On 7/27/20 3:07 PM, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
Running XFCE. Touchpad is not listed in the Mouse page, so presumably the touchpad is broken?
Check if your keyboard has a disable touchpad button.
Verified
Check in the BIOS settings if there's a touchpad setting for smart. Sometimes that one doesn't work with Linux
No smart BIOS
Check in /proc/bus/input/devices to see if you can see your touchpad listed.
Directory is empty -- but also empty on similar system with working touchpad
Do you remember what the X config setting was that you had before?
Alas, no. I'll dig around, but I expect thst the bottom line is broken hardware.
Thanks.
On 7/28/20 3:04 PM, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
On Mon, 27 Jul 2020 16:05:47 -0700 Samuel Sieb samuel@sieb.net wrote:
Check in /proc/bus/input/devices to see if you can see your touchpad listed.
Directory is empty -- but also empty on similar system with working touchpad
What do you mean it's empty? It's a "file", not a directory. And it has to be there.
On Tue, 28 Jul 2020 15:25:56 -0700 Samuel Sieb samuel@sieb.net wrote:
On 7/28/20 3:04 PM, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
On Mon, 27 Jul 2020 16:05:47 -0700 Samuel Sieb samuel@sieb.net wrote:
Check in /proc/bus/input/devices to see if you can see your touchpad listed.
Directory is empty -- but also empty on similar system with working touchpad
What do you mean it's empty? It's a "file", not a directory. And it has to be there.
My bad. The file is empty.
On 7/28/20 4:31 PM, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
On Tue, 28 Jul 2020 15:25:56 -0700 Samuel Sieb samuel@sieb.net wrote:
On 7/28/20 3:04 PM, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
On Mon, 27 Jul 2020 16:05:47 -0700 Samuel Sieb samuel@sieb.net wrote:
Check in /proc/bus/input/devices to see if you can see your touchpad listed.
Directory is empty -- but also empty on similar system with working touchpad
What do you mean it's empty? It's a "file", not a directory. And it has to be there.
My bad. The file is empty.
How are you determining that? If you look with "ls", it has a length of 0, but you can read it with "less". There really is something there.
On 2020-07-29 07:31, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
On Tue, 28 Jul 2020 15:25:56 -0700 Samuel Sieb samuel@sieb.net wrote:
On 7/28/20 3:04 PM, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
On Mon, 27 Jul 2020 16:05:47 -0700 Samuel Sieb samuel@sieb.net wrote:
Check in /proc/bus/input/devices to see if you can see your touchpad listed.
Directory is empty -- but also empty on similar system with working touchpad
What do you mean it's empty? It's a "file", not a directory. And it has to be there.
My bad. The file is empty.
You think it is empty because
[egreshko@meimei ~]$ ll /proc/bus/input/devices -r--r--r--. 1 root root 0 Jul 29 07:45 /proc/bus/input/devices
But it isn't a file in the traditional sense.
Do....
cat /proc/bus/input/devices
On Wed, 29 Jul 2020 07:46:24 +0800 Ed Greshko ed.greshko@greshko.com wrote:
On 2020-07-29 07:31, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
On Tue, 28 Jul 2020 15:25:56 -0700 Samuel Sieb samuel@sieb.net wrote:
On 7/28/20 3:04 PM, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
On Mon, 27 Jul 2020 16:05:47 -0700 Samuel Sieb samuel@sieb.net wrote:
Check in /proc/bus/input/devices to see if you can see your touchpad listed.
Directory is empty -- but also empty on similar system with working touchpad
What do you mean it's empty? It's a "file", not a directory. And it has to be there.
My bad. The file is empty.
You think it is empty because
[egreshko@meimei ~]$ ll /proc/bus/input/devices -r--r--r--. 1 root root 0 Jul 29 07:45 /proc/bus/input/devices
But it isn't a file in the traditional sense.
Do....
cat /proc/bus/input/devices
Ah! Verrry interesting.
No entry for TouchPad. Poor thing has died. So sad.
Thanks to you and Samuel for the help.